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XMAS/New Year Office Opening Hours

The IAP wishes you all the seasons greetings. The IAP offices will be open until 12:00 pm on XMAS Eve and will reopen on Tuesday 29th of December. We will also be closed from 12:00 pm New Years Eve and will reopen on Monday 4th January. You can still email us or leave us a […]

VSJ – October 2015 – Triangles within Triangles

Paul Lynham presents The “Triple Constraint” or “Iron Triangle” is a concept whereby constraints on the system are in opposition to each other. There are several trilemmas in computing including CAPi, Zooko’s Triangleii and the “Project Triangle”, to be considered here. In relation to a software development project, the constraints are usually considered to be scope, […]

VSJ – October 2015 – Computer Vision, A Developer’s Viewpoint

Computer Vision A Developer’s Viewpoint Tom Reader Alver Valley Software Limited www.alvervalleysoftware.com Computer Vision is an exciting branch of computer science for the programmer, combining mathematics, artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques, with more traditional programming skills and problem solving. It can require large amounts of computing horsepower, and as such the theory has […]

VSJ – October 2015 – A Visual Cortex Model software package for evaluating the conspicuity of objects

Chris Stone FIAP presents an interesting article on a system which enables a user to determine how conspicuous an object would be when placed in a particular location, thus facilitating the optimum positioning of items such as road signs or railway signals. The software lets the user manipulate images of an object in a scene […]

Notice of Annual General Meeting

The Institution’s 2015 AGM will be on Saturday, 17th October, at Boundary House, Boston Road, Hanwell W7 2QE, starting at 1.00 pm. The AGM is usually a short meeting, its purpose being merely to fulfill a requirement of the Companies Acts, but all members of the Institution are welcome to attend. Those wishing to do […]

Food for thought

The IAP were invited to attend the Food & Drink IT Summit at the National Motor Cycle Museum last Tuesday as an Associate of the event. We were very happy to be associated with this industry leading meeting. The event had many speakers discussing various aspects of IT in the industry, mainly discussing supply chain processing, energy […]

Internet of Things – Wi-Fi powered devices around the corner?

This article appeared on the BBC news web site and I thought I would share it with you. Power beamed to camera via ambient wi-fi signals

Passwords

My Bank asked me to set up an 8-character password. So I chose Snow White and the 7 Dwarves. I can’t remember whose line that is. Tim Vine, maybe. Anyway, IAP President, David Morgan, recently raised the password issue in a LinkedIn post. That’s prompted me to describe the system I’ve been using for several […]

Really Useful Computer Knowledge Workshops – Aberystwyth 24th and 25th June

After 5 great years, the Software Alliance Wales project comes to an end on 30th June. To go out with a bang, we are supporting the second run of the RUCK (Really Useful Computer Knowledge) tutorials and workshops being held at Aberystwyth University on the 24th & 25th June. RUCK tutorials are two days […]

Amazon ‘Dash’ Button

I was quite taken by this article about the Amazon Dash Button. The concept is simple you have product buttons in the cupboard or fridge where they would normally be and when your out of the product you click the button and the next day they are delivered. Amazon do this through Amazon Prime which […]